Saturday, May 23, 2009

Top 10 List: Favorite Lyrics


Artist: Pearl Jam
Album: No Code
Song: Present Tense
Lyricist: Eddie Vedder
"You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets, or you can come to terms and realize you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself. Makes much more sense to live in the present tense."

Artist: Coheed and Cambria
Album: Secondstage Turbine Blade
Song: Time Consumer
Lyricist: Claudio Sanchez
"Pain is only a pulse if you just stop feeling it."

Artist: Bush
Album: Razorblade Suitcase
Song: Mouth
Lyricst: Gavin Rossdale
"All your mental armor drags me down, Nothing hurts like your mouth."

Artist: Killswitch Engage
Album: Alive or Just Breathing
Song: Vida Infra
Lyricist: Jesse Leach
"No one is placed higher than another no matter race or creed or gender we must teach forgiveness and compassion for all life."

Artist: The Fall of Troy
Album: Doppelganger
Song: F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X.
Lyricist: Thomas Erak
"I dont want to see the day when my words cannot make it safe."

Artist: Coheed and Cambria
Album: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Song: The Crowing
Lyricist: Claudio Sanchez
"I've fought the decisions that call and lost my part as the revelant piece in this. I will come reformed. In short, for the murders of those I court, I bless the hour that holds your fall. I will kill you all."

Artist: Lamb of God
Album: As the Palaces Burn
Song: As the Palaces Burn
Lyricist: Randy Blythe
"As the seeds you cast away take hold, war will be born. Rejoice, the age of the fall has begun. We'll dance as the palaces burn."

Artist: Pantera
Album: The Great Southern Trendkill
Song: Drag the Waters
Lyricist: Phil Anselmo
"A smack on the wrist is the words from the mouth of the outsiders, lawyers, police. A small price to pay for the dope, and the guns, and the rape, it should all be o.k. Your father is rich, hes the judge, hes the man, Hes the God that got your sentence reduced, But in the back of his mind, he well knows what he'd find if he looked a little deeper in you."

Artist: Alice in Chains
Album: Alice in Chains
Song: God AM
Lyricist: Layne Staley
"Can I be as my God Am?"

Artist: Coheed and Cambria
Album: Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 2: No World For Tomorrow
Song: Mother Superior
Lyricist: Claudio Sanchez
"You'll just see the worst of me with the hope they'd understand. Oh, they know you're just a boy, so grow up and be a man. Little baby, all kicking, you scream and whine. Victims pay the price eventually. The cost? Lets see....your lives."


HONORABLE MENTION


Artist: Pearl Jam
Album: Ten
Song: Black
Lyricist: Eddie Vedder
"I know some day you have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star. In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why can't it be......why can't it be mine?"

Artist: Lamb of God
Album: Sacrament
Song: Redneck
Lyricist: Randy Blythe
"You can tell the same lie a thousand times but it never gets anymore true. So close your eyes once more and once more believe that they all still believe in you."

Artist: Taking Back Sunday
Album: Tell All Your Friends
Song: You're So Last Summer
Lyricist: Adam Lazzara
"The truth is you could slit my throat, and with my one last gasping breath, Id apologize for bleeding on your shirt."

Artist: Lostprophets
Album: The Fake Sound of Progress
Song: The Fake Sound of Progress
Lyricist: Ian Watkins
"Somebody told me that I'd always have to bow, but if that were true, I would have fallen apart by now. The more you feel, the less you act their way, so can you hear it, The fake sound of progress."

Artist: Lamb of God
Album: Ashes of the Wake
Song: Omerta
Lyricist: Randy Blythe
"Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both, for a wounded man shall say to his assailant, "If I live I will kill you, If I die, you are forgiven." Such is the rule of honor."

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